Mustang Mach-E Road Trip From Los Angeles to Colorado! A Better Experience On The Return Trip?

Hello and welcome to another off-spec video. If you joined us last on our

road

trip

in the Mustang Maki, you know, I came to Los Angeles and I came here. I drove from Fort Collins to here, uh, in the extended range. first edition

mustang

mach

i with wheel drive in grabber blue to drive a very purple porsche tycoon so i just finished my testing of this tycon. You'll have to go to external spec reviews to see that and also inside evs is an awesome rear wheel drive version. almost 300 miles on a charge in my 300 or 70 mile per hour highway range test is truly incredible and now it's time to get in the

mustang

and head from here in Los Angeles to Fort Collins which is just an hour away north of Denver.

It will be a long

trip

, huge elevation gains to get back home, it was already dangerous enough to get here to Los Angeles and that was downhill. Now we have to climb to over 10,000 feet of elevation on this trip over Vale Pass and, uh, heading. home in fort collins where we will finish around 5000 feet elevation beautiful sunny day here in los

angeles

as always it rained last night but it's already nice and warm it's around 9 00 am. so we'll see if we can get there tonight although I don't think that's possible, we'll probably spend the night somewhere in Utah and come home tomorrow, let's see what we can get into.

I just left the Porsche where all the press cars are kept. This is kind of how it works, they have fleet companies that manage media vehicles and then they go to journalists. It's a really strange industry, but it's interesting to be a part of it now and, yeah, let's jump into the mustang and get out of this mustang again. It was purchased for multimedia use only, but it was purchased. This is not a test vehicle. This is something we bought in collaboration with ev Dave and I mean Dave paid for it. We're just making videos with him.

Dave will do too. videos with him on his channel, so be sure to follow Evie Dave. We have a charge of up to 94 states of charge. This car has an EPA rating range of 270, but you can see after driving on the

road

in some colder temperatures that there is a 55 degree difference, the car predicts closer. at 200 miles on a full charge, which I think is actually not that bad. I actually think this car is pretty good. Let's go here, there are two of us and we're going home. Let's see how it calculates the chargers for us.

EV chargers are being added sometimes it does a great job sometimes not so much let's take a look it looks like it's doing a good job voice commands while driving see ten charging stops electrify america evgo electrify america all dc fast chargers one point charging here we'll probably skip that and then be home, so it all sounds like a good travel plan. It says we'll go 127 miles to a Walmart supercenter. One of the problems is that you can't see where each DC fast charger is, so I'm not. I'm not sure what city it is because you can't zoom in here and when you click on this and click details it doesn't tell you exactly what city it is in it just tells you a little bit about the charger so it also says it's out of stock .

Ford network but it is capable of plug and charge, we are just getting close to the charger so, this guy just lost it, excuse my language, here are our trip statistics, we have traveled 124.7 miles, we have been driving for almost two hours and we have averaged 2.7. miles per kilowatt hour, so I think the chargers are down here, if I remember correctly, there are two up there for the disabled, a lot of these California ones are like that, sorry for the beeping, and then the rest are here and we need to talk charging for a second because the maki has some weird charging things so the mustang supports plug and charge which is awesome like a tesla like situation where you just walk up to the charger and then turn it on you connect directly, it's really amazing and uh, the thing is, it's great when they give you the 250 kilowatt hours for free, which is what you get when you buy a mustang at electrify america, but once your 250 kilowatt hours are gone there's no way to link your account to the car. so you end up paying full price for the load.

Now I pay four dollars a month to reduce the rate per kilowatt of kilowatt hour from 43 cents to 31. 42 cents to 31, something like this anyway, a pretty significant difference where, you know, we're talking about 10 15, a big difference in loading session. Now there is no way to get my cheapest rate using plug and charge in the Mustang, so there is no benefit for me. Now I have to open the app on my phone, swipe it to activate it, and then plug it in. So the ease of plug and charge only makes sense if you want to pay for expensive charging now.

I'm sure in the future there will be a way to link accounts, but this should have been carefully thought out before launch. If you watch our previous Mustang video, you'll know that the loading curve is really strange and I encourage you to watch it before this video because it's more or less a continuation and what I'm hoping to find here is a really good one. power charging sessions, we can't do anything to maintain 150 kilowatts, it will be reduced to 110 to 95 for the charging session, we are just going to consume that speed, but I hope we have less interruptions in charging if you saw the last video.

I would know it takes five, six, seven times to plug and unplug just to get enough power to move on to the next because the car keeps failing and I don't think it's a failure of the electrify america stations, my gut tells me it's a failure. of the car because the station says it is a vehicle protocol error every time, so it is a recurring problem. There are a couple more small bugs, but this one keeps showing up, so let me open the app and swipe to activate. It's sunny but it's raining a lot. weird and we are going to do our first charging session here in Barstow, California we are at charging status 38 here we go plugged in we have swiped the app everything is connected now if you have followed it again you would know Mustang doesn't tell you how fast are you charging from inside the car, so what I have to do is in a situation like this, I can look ahead and see the little kilowatt rate on the screen, but with the sun hitting it like that.

I don't think it's possible, so I'll stay outside and supervise our charging session. I'll make sure we have good enough speeds to stay on the road and it doesn't look like we're off to a good start. It says oh no here we go charging start error let's see why it says uh check cable voltage too low this sounds like an electrify america problem here okay maybe I'll try this 150 kilowatt station. 150 kilowatt stations can produce only a hair more. than 150 and it can definitely maximize the charging curve of the mustang so we're already off to a good start let's plug this thing in and I'm going to swipe to activate dispenser number four right now I can't actually swipe to activate in the app because when you trigger charging that way and it fails you have a three to five minute window where the app gets stuck starting to charge so what's happening now is the mustang is communicating with the charger and it's going to me bill to the maximum.

Price Now I'm not that worried about the price, I'd rather just be able to load it, but yeah, when you use the app for the first time and it crashes, it just gets stuck starting to load and you can't touch the app, you can close it and open it again. You have to delete the app and then add it back to your phone and then log in again and then it starts working. This is very frustrating, so I tried both stations down there. One didn't even know it was plugged in when I plugged it in, then I tried again, it failed one last time and now we are accelerating, everything is fine here, starting to charge, I have the app to restart, so there we are. on the cheapest rate so let's see what happens here this is so crazy how annoying is this maybe I'm just upset because I had a very strange trip on the way here but it says yes, now we're charging 38, we're doing 73 kilowatts they give you an upgrade, it will probably go up a bit more, although the battery is probably still slightly cold in the 126 mustang.

Yes we would have been doing 150 more, it could still go up there, but yes definitely, probably due to the battery temperature. but at least we're charging and we're on our way and I almost fell these were charging and we're on our way and we can get to Colorado, let's hope we're speeding up this trip home to Colorado because the weather is going to be brutal, it looks like we're going to get a big winter storm around here and I'm a little sorry about the camera work and I'm looking forward to not getting caught up in that because we have a great weekend coming up. a lot of car reviews I can't miss, just ran to Jack in the box, never tried it, first time trying some chicken strips, uh, can't monitor charging session from electrify america app, which is a bug that I don't hear the cable cooling and the Ford app doesn't give you real time charging status so I have no idea if the car is still charging or if it has failed.

Oh wait, I hear the cable cooling, I think it's still charging. take a look this is exciting because it's actually working here we're running to the charger we're at state of charge 65 let me click the button we'll see the kilowatts click now we wait for the delay and 93 kilowatts still hey that's pretty good for this one mustang let's check out our next charging stop it's so funny when I was getting in the car the electrify america app came up. I'll put the screen recording right here, it popped up and showed me in real time. Loading status for the first time with the new app, that's pretty good, so here's our trip plan according to the mustang.

Now he wants us to go 62 miles which makes no sense, we have 150 miles left and then he wants us to sit for 8 hours. 25 minutes at 67 percent, then you want an hour and 25 minutes at 80 percent. How is all this? I have never liked it. I just forgot that electrify america existed before. It will take 34 hours to get home now with 18 hours of charge. That's ridiculous. so I will plan the trip myself. I guess I selected the next charger to be the Las Vegas South premium outlet. It is about 145 miles away. We are at a state of charge of 73.

The cars think we have 158 miles planned. range but we had to go up coming out of the uh, we also have a big tailwind going up there, I mean, almost a perfect tailwind, you know, 15 10 15 miles per hour, so we should see pretty good efficiency. and we should also be able to do it as soon as we get to 80 percent, see there's no point charging the Mustang past 80 percent because it drops to 12 kilowatts and then it stays there pretty much all the time, so there's no way to We might ever charge past 80 on a trip unless absolutely necessary, but we don't, we're at 74, as soon as we get to 80 we'll go and honestly we'll probably get there by a pretty big margin, I'm just a Bit worried about the elevation, but who knows, it could be good and tailwinds can always change headwinds, so I don't want to take big risks.

The baker is halfway there. We can always stop there and charge if necessary, but yeah, we're not as confident traveling by road. this car, like I'm the tesla, for example, where I have no problem getting to zero, one, two percent, I'm still learning the quirks of mustangs and, uh, oddities at this point, but yeah, five percent more of the state of charge gives us probably eight minutes or so and then. we'll get out of here let's take a look at this we're at a 79 percent state of charge let's take a look at our screen we're doing 77 kilowatts now watch what happens as soon as we go down and get to 80. to be a big drop take a look look at 80 and go down to 27 and wait for it to refresh again, you just hit a wall, you never need to charge the battery this way, you can just keep the cells at maximum voltage and dynamically lower the curve.

No problem, we're already at 16 and we're on our way to 12. So it's definitely time to stop, unplug, and head on to the next one. Well we plug in here in Las Vegas it's very windy uh we plug in I think around 15. state of charge we're currently at 65 state of charge guess what the guys plugged in first super good charging session the charging curve is bad we're going down to 78 kilowatts at 65 percent can I just I'm looking at the ea screen in front of me uh and there's a titcon over here I don't know if you can see them there you go I don't know what they're doing they're just sitting there looking at the chargers, they can come close and plug in.

It's not going to hurt you and uh yeah, really very good uh good loading session all around uh I can't complain about this like thatit's as it should be I was going to say I thought it just locked up but the battery cooled down just arrived off the top air conditioning compressor I'm going to plan our next stop now and let you know where we're headed after this. We are now charged up to 72 percent. It looks like we have enough energy to get to Mesquite. Nevada, maybe even St. George, that black icon is actually the exact same icon.

The same lady also waved from the last time we were here when we went to Los Angeles. It's really amazing and I guess that car is charged with direct current. The weather is pretty interesting, let's log off and go as soon as we're ready, it's 131 miles to St George Washington, Utah, basically charged up to 74, looks like it'll only be a couple more minutes until we get to 80. I think we'll do another load 80 and we will continue on our way. The maki's charging curve means it is a little different to other electric vehicles. It doesn't necessarily help to just go in. dead, it's

better

to stop around twenty or thirty percent uh here at fifteen percent I think we plugged in eighteen percent uh made a much

better

charging curve look at that oshkosh that's awesome welcome to Washington stop whistle me, okay?

Let's connect this, should we take the ccs connection? I have already activated it with the application again. The Mustang supports plug-in loading, but not at my membership rate. It's so easy to swipe the app. This thing is covered in errors you are getting. It's cold, windy and man, those skies look pretty gnarly, don't they? Handshakes are definitely faster when you don't use plug and charge, plug and charge adds at least 15 to 20 seconds to the handshake for the mustang, so when you preactivate the charger for payment, then just skip the request plug and charge and yeah the car looks pretty dirty, honestly I like the way it looks, covered in dirt, really fun roads on the way here should have pretty good charging speeds. because I smashed it pretty hard and we're in a good state of loading around 22, I think something like this I just wait until this thing doesn't lag so I can show you the loading screen, come on, you don't want to hit continue too much because this is also the same button that stops charging so sometimes if you do it too much you will inadvertently start your charging session like this, I just don't know if it was me or if it was because of the delay or if it really just happened crashed anyway, I moved here to this one, but then I realized it's probably a bad idea because now I can't see the loading speed on the car.

I didn't think about it until I plugged it in. like oh well, I guess we're here, so I'm just going to go in and out as long as it doesn't start raining here to check the loading speed and now I'm just going to click on this once, here we go. I don't want to, I think I've done it by clicking on this twice, but it's obviously lagging 79 kilowatts, let's see if we can get a little more, here folks, here we go, 146, that's better, let's let this thing charge as much as possible. enough to keep going. We'll take a look at the next stop.

We now have a charge of up to 61,133 miles of estimated range. We have a little climb, I think to Beaver Utah, it's 102 miles to get there, which leaves us with 32 miles of projection. range buffer if I was in a hurry I probably would have gotten out of five six seven percent ago, but we're just cruising on this trip and I was on a phone call so 61 is still perfectly fine, we're getting pretty good speeds, about 85 kilowatts . So when I say pretty good speeds relative to the Mustang, these are still pretty low speeds, let's disconnect and go to Beaver Utah.

It's worth noting that the last two charging sessions have been almost perfect. This has worked very well. Look, we. Recharging 79 kilowatts at 62 percent, added 36 kilowatt hours here, super stress free again, the only problem was my fault due to the delay at that station over there, but hey, this worked out pretty well, I have to say, and now we we direct. The days of going to Beaver Utah with a little bit of rain and snow seem to have thrown the mustang off because he was sailing in copilot 360 and I have a vertical video so I'm going to go here and put the vertical video here and he was sailing in copa360 and I started running towards the cars and said, wow, I was driving without thinking, I thought, why am I so close?

So I like to do a lane change like double checking. I'm on adaptive cruise control. The car shows no indication that there is anything wrong and it was just going to hit the car in front of me so I tried it in the truck and yes I set the speed to 85 and it was just With the throttle wide open it will go straight towards back, so other systems have trouble in bad weather conditions maintaining distance control, but each and every one of them shuts down and again, this is very mild weather, it looks like there's just a little bit of snow. and it's raining, there's sleet, it doesn't seem to be bad, the roads are fine, you know, you need to warm up your radar cone so you know you have the clearest view forward and if for some reason the radar unit is blinded and can't I see that it should shut down, it should say Hey, the system is unavailable for security reasons, this is incredibly dangerous.

Welcome to Beaver Utah. Thank goodness we carried a little more. I definitely wasn't expecting that giant winter storm, so it's probably a good thing I left some cushion. there and a pretty big elevation gain, of course, let's plug this in and activate the charger with my app because again the plug charging situation is going to get expensive. We just plugged it in. This is the exact same unit, no, I think we used. This unit without fail, the charge is much better on the

return

trip than on the way out. I'm not sure what is changing. Similar climatic conditions.

Similar driving style. Similar charging style. I guess the big difference is that I was using plug and charge quite a bit more frequently. along the way, so I'm thinking maybe something to do with the plug's charging communication was interrupting charging, but that should only happen at the beginning of the charging session, not continuously, but protocol errors from the vehicle haven't really happened in All I think about on this trip is swiping to activate it, so who knows, it could have been a plug and charge issue. Watch it fail now, but this is just my theory at this point.

Well, we're going to charge up here in Beaver until we get to the 50th state. With no charge then we're going to jump 77 miles to Salina. Uh, the thing is, we've got this pretty gnarly snow storm coming right now that's going to be like mega and I'm just trying. I'm going to charge 50, take it to Salinas, see what the weather is like, make some determinations up there, but yeah, 77 miles uphill with 50 states of charge, this car shouldn't give any problem even in sub-zero temperatures in a blizzard, the copilot 360. I started getting warnings that it wasn't going to start doing distance after we got out of the blizzard when it became clear that it's crazy to me all this software , but charging works very well.

I must say that the loading curve does not. okay, but the charging sessions are much better and the only difference I think we can really determine here is that I'm using swipes to start instead of plug and charge. I don't know why that would affect the rest of the session, but it looks like there's two more percent left to go, we're at 48. We're going to switch off, get out of here and head to salina, the wind and snow are coming, so Let's disconnect and go, we're going to have to get ahead of this storm, come on. unhook unhook ah there we go man these cables are very difficult to maneuver when it's snowing damn this charging port I'm afraid will have some problems in the winter let's do it welcome to salina utah and another flawless charging session this is it What I would like to see is that the charging curve is brutal, although we are at 80 kilowatts at 71, but hey, at least we are charging, that's what we want, so let's disconnect and we'll head to Green River Utah, which is that coffee shop . and then from there in Grand Junction maybe we'll stay in Green River tonight and take a look and see, but somewhere around there it's 200 miles to Grand Junction uphill.

I don't think we can do it even with a full charge. so we better just cut our losses now to 72 percent and we will have a 30 to 40 mile buffer to get to Green River Coffee and if the weather turns bad again, there was a snow storm on the way here, so I have a lot space to use on the way, let's rock and welcome to Green River. I'm here at the Holiday Inn, uh Express, new building. I parked here because I found an outlet on the wall. I'm going to plug in the Mustang. For overnight charging, we are right down the street from the Electrify America stations.

I normally charge at night now because that's when the batteries warm up and can accept DC fast charging, but tomorrow I want to get up and I want to see. Really, how much is really lost in terms of charging speed with a cold battery, so tonight the temperature will drop to about 25 degrees here in Green River, the car will be on a 110 outlet which will not be enough to sustain it. Too hot, but it should be enough to allow for fast enough DC charging there in the morning, if it's slow enough we'll take it out and run it up and down the street, heating everything up, time will tell, gotta get some videos. edited and then I go to bed, it's around 10:30 pm. m., it's the next day.

I stayed at the new Holiday Inn Express. It literally just opened less than five days ago. They're even putting electric car chargers here that I was talking to. guys, which is great because for some reason on this stretch of 70 there are like 300 miles without a hotel with a charger, so this will be a fantastic stop for me halfway, it's one of the new Holiday Inn Express with all the updated stuff that I really like. These, I think are great value for money, really good hotel, uh, and the style is amazing, it's just a great place to spend time, get some work done, good lounge, good pool, everything was good, no is that go to the pool, but like a good vibe really cool defender 90 over here by the way, check it out, I love that thing, so cool, we have the mustang here.

I tried plugging it into that outlet last night like you saw and unfortunately it wasn't on so I did that. I didn't charge it last night so we're at 25 30 charge status. I'll have to take a look at it. Look at this. You can't adjust heated seats backwards. The reason is that you press the heated seat button and then you have to do it. slide this slider, what you should be able to do is just press the heated seat like a lever because that's what a heated seat button should do. Very silly, I have activated the charger with the ea app, let's see what kind of charging in cold weather. speeds the

mach

ine can have I talked to some Ford engineers about this cold weather charging issue and they say they designed the maki to be great in cold weather.

I'm not sure what that means, but it's 40 degrees, I don't know. I think we're going to get 160 kilowatts, but we should let you know that if a tesla at this temperature would probably put out between 30 and 50 kilowatts, I think with a battery this cold I modified it a little on the way here, let's take a look and see what kind of speeds we get, let's really see if this is a good cold weather car or if you need to charge it the night before staying somewhere, which you should usually do anyway. 56 kilowatts, hey, that's not so bad, let's see next. so we're going to get enough juice to get us to Grand Junction here at the Green River cafe.

Too bad I don't drink coffee. I go to Starbucks every morning, but I have a pink drink, not a uh, not a coffee, so 56. kilowatts and 40 degree temperatures really isn't terrible, it's not terrible at all, I have to say, so we'll let that the maki will charge for a moment and then we will head to Grand Junction. You can see right now it's the hours and the Mustang. predicting a charge of 80 at 1004 a. m., so what is normally 30 to 40 minutes is now extended to over an hour from zero to 80 percent just due to a cold battery, now that's not a problem unique to the Mustang that suffers.

I know all EVs suffer from this, but these are the things people need to know before they start thinking about buying an EV and trip them up because this can be annoying if you don't know how to plan for it. I expected this to take a while. I'm going to edit a video and that's why I came here instead of working at the hotel this morning. Well, it seems like a pretty easy trip. We will head to electrify america at Sam's Club on GrandJunction. that's 100 miles away, we're up to 60 percent charged, even with the slight incline we'll be able to do, no problem, let's take a look while the battery has warmed up, you can see our estimated completion has dropped to 9 :39 a.m. instead of believing 1004 so DC charging is the fastest way to heat up a battery other than just putting it on the ground on the street so this will actually heat this up yeah we're already up to 102 kilowatts.

It's starting to warm up pretty good, let's unplug and let's go, welcome to Grand Junction Colorado here at Sam's Club. It's surprisingly funny how far this charger is from the highway. I think they intended it to be a downtown charger because it's like eight miles away. the highway maybe not many maybe six miles off the highway. I have activated with the application again. Remember we had a lot of trouble here going out and if we don't do it this time I think the only thing that has changed is the plug. -charging activation because again the car has not received a software update, the chargers may have, although this charger actually failed so we will see how well it works and it said it was not available now it says it is available so everything It looks pretty good here.

Really nice in Grand Junction, so the signs on the highway said there are extreme winter conditions and severe driving conditions at the pass. Now I'm not sure how much I buy that, but just out of caution, we're going to charge quite a bit. a little more, at least you know, let's go up to 80, have the buffer just in case, because up there, at 10,000 feet altitude, you don't know what the weather can be like and if the signs scare you, then maybe that's how it is . It's something to keep in mind, we only have all season tires on this card, there are no winters.

I have a set of really aggressive snow tires on my tesla, um 153 kilowatts at 11, we plug in at nine, so we're getting a good charge. just load up to eighty percent and then we'll go up to the next one and you know what if we came in with tons of cushion at least we were safe and we had something extra because these conditions should not be altered in the elevation, we have huge elevation gains so we're going to have cold weather snow potential ice deep snow conditions other cars that will turn this is what we've all seen this and then of course we're going to be, you know, gaining lift in a car without great efficiency so let's see how we get up the hill and we have a load up to 80, so let's take a look at the really good loading sessions, friends, this is amazing, it's what I've wanted to see all this time.

I guess if you have a mustang just use your app to activate the chargers, tap to go back, but I know, I just know we're on 12 kilowatts, there are 45 minute charging sessions, that's how long it takes to charge this car I mean, with the Tycon we were doing 12-minute charging sessions and certainly, I know it's a much more expensive car, but I think the Hyundai Ioniq 5 could be the best electric charging vehicle for the money when it comes out, come on Let's rock, let's take a look at how beautiful it is, man, I love it. western slope of

colorado

this is just amazing the views are crazy we are so lucky to live in this state look how beautiful it is man i want to bring up a topic while we're at it because it has to do with our route plan and that's why I always choose electrify america to charge.

There are other chargers. Well, I'd probably be more inclined to use other chargers if they were higher power or if I was in a car that couldn't accept the higher power it electrifies. US stations put up the majority of the charge point units, most of the evgo units being installed are generously up to 50 kilowatts, some of them are only 100 amps and then some of the new cpe 250 charge points have 62.5 kilowatts, well this mustang can accept 167 peaks and even though it is for a short period of time, the entire charging session up to 80 percent is above 62.5 kilowatts, so I choose electrify america for the loading time and speed.

I want to charge for the shortest amount of time, at the highest speed possible. regardless of the price except it's not crazy astronomical like hundreds of dollars to charge which would never be um and that's why I choose electrify america for myself. I'm brand agnostic, give me the juice of the electricity, the electricity, just put it in the car as quickly as possible. I'll go that's my main concern on a road trip so electrify america fits the bill however we have 155 miles estimated range at 73 sorry for the potholes Colorado roads aren't as good as our landscape , our roads aren't great and, uh, it's only 80 miles to the next electrify america station, which is, I'm trying to think we just did Grand Junction now we're going to one of them anyway, I don't remember, but the 170 miles from the next electrify america station we would definitely do it.

I won't be able to do that, especially going up the hills. There are a couple of charging points in the middle, so I'm going to play it by ear and see if I burn a ton of energy on the hill. We will load at 80 miles in Glenwood Springs. that's it or we'll take it past glenwood springs and do a quick 5-10 minute recharge at one of the electrify america stations so we can move on to the next ea completely dead so basically we can go through the glenwood springs stop at one charge point, get that charge point up to whatever percentage we need and then max out our charge at the next stop, basically hit zero at higher speeds, so we'll play.

I haven't decided what we're going to do yet. well we have reached our next charging stop, we are here at a charging point, 62.5 kilowatt charger, however the mustang has a fairly low pack voltage so it only really charges closer to 53, 54 kilowatts here in 29 states of charge, yeah. I can see that we are only producing 54 kilowatts, but it is rated at 62.5. Actually the chargers are rated in amps not total uh kilowatts because of course you have to match the voltage of the pack on an e-tron, this can even be over 62.5 kilowatts because that's a 400 pack. of volts uh when it has a medium rated load so now we're going to charge enough to get to the next charger in Frisco because yeah this just shows why I'm staying on electrify america we would be charging at 150 kilowatts in at least for a short period of time versus 54 which is just brutal well all the signs said watch the weather there really hasn't been any bad weather so I'm not sure what they're talking about but I talked to the people who put up this charger. and they said they were going to move the parking spaces up so the EVs can get closer to the charger because I'm like on the sidewalk just to plug this in and they're definitely going to do that, which is pretty cool anyway. not a bad loading spot, beautiful views, weird people around, but other than that what are you going to do?

You have to sit in your car in charge so I'm going to load up and then let's see Frisco and then from Frisco we could clear it up. At home, we are all charged up to 41 from that charging point unit. Very slow loading, just took forever. That's why I use electrify america. If you are installing new DC chargers, they must be a minimum of 150 kilowatts. Anything else. You're just wasting your time, seriously, either you waste the money or you don't install a unit right next to the road that is a canceled i-70 unit and only produces 62 kilowatts or these crazy people are no good anyway, uh, come on.

We're going to Frisco, we're going to go over the pass carrying Frisco and then it's all downhill, so 41 percent to go 60-odd miles, I think we'll be fine, well, there's the Vale Pass sign, we're at 10 .600 feet of elevation 12 uh battery remaining 23 miles predicted, that means this car would go less than 200 miles at two miles per kilowatt hour makes a lot of sense, it can only use 88 kilowatt hours from the battery pack anyway, we're driving for coast right now on the way down and then I'll also select l for additional regeneration when needed. I don't like using a pedal when driving on the road because it combines friction brakes.

I just want to be able to use all the regeneration I can get without it. Friction Brakes This is where everyone comes to ride snowmobiles. Pretty good spot and yes, beautiful views up here, not sure where the bad weather is. Check the weather map, although it looks like we're going to get hit tonight so that's good. Coming back, I guess all signs are in preparation for tonight's storm, but I still cut it, uh, cut it pretty close on the load here. I probably should have stayed at that charging point, you know, a little longer. I just took it slow and easy. the hill welcome to frisco

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there are two kia soul here charging this is part of the lift program as a driver you can get a free kia soul and a free charge or should I say you pay for the soul per day but you get free charging at electrify america and in denver kia soul electrics are everywhere because every lyft driver has one practically, I'm just getting cell service to connect so I can activate this charger and then we'll be ready to rock charging here.

I'm at 53 charging status, personally these charging sessions are taking a while. 78 kilowatts, now I can unplug and plug back in and get speeds back. I have to do that test, but I'm happy it's loading. Everything is great and it's been a really fantastic trip, this should be our last charging stop here in Frisco because it's all downhill, we're going to lose 5000 feet of elevation so we'll charge it up to, say, 80 percent that way , I have some time to get home. run some errands for the rest of the day so 80 we'll get out of here it takes a good hour to spend 10 to 80 on this uh maybe 55 minutes or so um actually I just got a note from Ford, no wonder it said: "There is a software update available for this car." Great, so let's update the software.

Stay tuned for out-of-spec reviews. If there are any changes, I will update it there and of course we will update it for the next road trip in this car, which will be from here in Colorado to North Carolina, we will have the newer software, the same expectation that it will Plug and play, that should be the minimum expectation, I think, on these road trips no matter the load. provider or the car and I'm looking forward to continuing to report in real time what happens on these EV road trips so I had a lot of fun meeting some of them those Lyft guys were awesome they pay 450 a week for unlimited mileage and charging free in that neuron. like why don't you go and rent or buy, you're just going to buy a used model Battery preconditioning on board, so it's like winter.

I get a charger that has about 12 kilowatts because the battery is very cold. I say, yeah, I run it up and down the street and warm it up and then maybe just shop. a car that preconditions the station and he says, oh that makes sense, he's spending two thousand dollars a month almost on a nero dash, the guy does his research, people do great research from home now and once he's done loading, we're at 56 percent.